Lloyd Banks – “The Cold Corner 2” [Mixtape]

Finally, something from Lloyd Banks that doesn’t suck balls. He’s still got that fucked up Benadryl-sleepy voice and most of the time seems pretty bored by his own familiar script (see: various ways to describe how looking at his jewelry can blind you). But thankfully he hooks up some decent collabos (Styles P on “Predator,” A$AP Rocky on “Make It Stack (Remix)”) and decent-enough mixtape beats that coax some of the better verses I’ve heard from him in a long while. Still not vintage 2004 Lloyd Banks, and why anyone allows him to do his own hooks I have no idea. But there are flashes of evidence that a decent rapper still exists somewhere in there.

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